Button-loop



(No Mio del.)

O. J. WHITE. BUTTON LOOP.

' PatentedApr. 9, 1895.

NITED STA CHARLES J. WHITE, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

PATENT OFFICE.

BUTTON-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 537,255, dated April 9, 1895.

Application filed February 23, 1894- $erial No. 501,189. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern- Loops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relatesto improvements in garment supporting loops, and the chief objects of my improvement are simplicity and economy in construction and general efficiency of the article, especially with relation to making the loop solid at its upper end.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of mybutton loop. Fig. 2 is an edge view'of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the spring shoulders. Fig. 4 is an edge View of the same.

I have illustrated my device as adapted to support a garment which is provided with a button or buttons for engaging the loop.

A designates the loop proper'having any suitable means for attachment to a web or other piece, as for example, the eye 7. The 2 5 sides 8 instead of by the loop itself. I have shown the loop A in Figs. 1 and2 as formed of two members in one piece of metal doubled upon itself, as at 9, the same being cut out by suitable dies so as to form a loop of two thicknesses, as shown in edge view, Fig. 2, while in side view or front elevation they are of the form shown in Fig. l.

I form the elastic or spring sides 8 preferably of a wire loop, as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, and provide said loop with outwardly turned ends 10. In the body of the loop I form slight recesses in each member, as at 11, to admit the outwardly turned ends 10 of the spring sides, and I insert these spring sides within the loop proper, so as to lie in substantially the same plane as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. It is desirable but not necessary that the spring sides should be confined so as to stay in the same plane as the loop proper and I prefer to do this by swaging a portion of the wire into the thin web or fin, as at 12, and let said fin enter in between the two thicknesses of metal at the end of the loop; but such web or fin on an inner lining wire is not of itself made the subject of this application. When in use the pull of the garment will keep the wire loop which forms the spring sides, in the position shown in Fig. 1, even if the fin or other fastening at the engaging end of the loop should be omitted. In all of them the body of the loop is formed in two thicknesses of sheet metal and the spring sides are within the opening in the loop so as to occupy the same plane. The free ends of the spring sides are also covered and protected within said two thicknesses of metal.

In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 4, the spring sides are of one piece in the same general form as the opening at the engaging end of the loop and being formed of rounded wire.

secured within the same plane as the loop and with their connected portion within the edge of said engaging end, serve to properly line its inner edge without interfering with their function asspring sides. In no' case can the spring sides be expanded so as to expose the sharp inner edge of the body of the loop to come in contact with the portion of the garment that engages said sides.

I claim as my invention A garment supporting loop consisting essentially of a practically rigid loop having side recesses, the garment engaging end of which loop is substantially U shaped, and the separately constructed spring sides formed in one piece, and having their middle portion of the same general form as the middle por-' tion of said garment engaging end,but smaller, the outer edge of said middle portion of said spring sides being secured to and abutting against the inner edge of said garment engaging end of said loop, said spring sides curving inwardly from their middle portion away from the inner edge of the loop and terminating in outwardly turned ends which rest within the side recesses of the loop and are free to move laterally therein substantially as described; whereby the inner edge of the laterally moving spring sides forms the garment engaging surface, in contradistinction to the inner edge of the loop.-

CHARLES J. WHITE.

Witnesses: A. W. STIPEK,

J AMES SHEPARD. 

